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The Herefordshire Group Training Association, part of the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Group Training Association, work with local companies to run their Apprentice schemes and this was the ceremony to give the awards to those who had passed certain training levels. These included NVQ Level 2, EAL Level 2 Diploma, NVQ level 3 in different aspects […]

At the previous probation forum, I floundered in a sea of acronyms. This time, a glossary of abbreviations was kindly provided, especially for the High Sheriff. The forum received reports from the National Probation Service (NPS) and the Warwickshire and West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC). Since the last forum, changes to the way that […]

Four years of commemoration of First World War 1914-1918 culminated in this service of Reflection in Hereford Cathedral in the afternoon of 11th November, following the Remembrance Sunday services held all over the County, the Country and the World. It has been interesting to see how interest and a wish to be involved has grown […]

The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Councillor Sue Boulter hosted the assembled dignitaries prior to the annual Hereford City Annual Remembrance Day Parade and Service at the War memorial in St. Peter’s Square. An impressive assembly of servicemen and women, and a number of civilian groups drew up under the expert guidance of the Royal British […]

Armistice Day began with Lone Pipers in Towns and Cities playing at 6am to commemorate, on this day 100 years ago, the signing of the Armistice in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, not far from Paris and far behind the front line in Allied Territory. This link tells more of how the Armistice came into being. It was actually […]

The Hereford Cathedral School (HCS)presented a programme of music and readings in aid of The Royal British Legion in memory of those who attended the school and died in war since 1914. Seventy- seven boys died in the First World War, forty-four in the Second World War and two in subsequent wars. Various different HCS choirs performed […]

At 4:30 each day of this Remembrance week, Monday to Saturday, before Choral Evensong at Hereford Cathedral at 5:30, the names of all the men and women from Herefordshire – some 3,200 – who fell in the First World War will be read out, with their full names, service and, where appropriate, their decorations. Today […]

A Service of Dedication of the Field of Remembrance in the Lady Arbour of Hereford Cathedral took place today at the start of the week that leads up to Sunday 11th November, Remembrance Sunday and the Centenary of the Armistice that brought the fighting of World War I to an end. The Dean offered a Collect […]

This lunch, whose Patrons are Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenants, of Herefordshire, the Dowager Countess of Darnley, and of Worcestershire, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Holcroft, was to raise funds to support the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Army Cadet Force Charitable Trust. The Trust was formed in 2005 to raise funds to enable cadets to experience expeditions at home […]